Oscar Wilde – The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince and Other Stories

When Mr and Mrs Otis, Virginia, Washington, and the young twins move into Canterville Chase, they are warned about the spectre of Sir Simon that haunts the old house. Bloodstains, strange apparitions and clanking chains seem to prove his existence, but with gleeful American practicality the Otises simply offer Tammany Rising Sun Lubricator to oil Sir Simon's chains and Pinkerton's Champion Stain Remover for the blood on the carpet. Defeated by a family that refuses to be haunted, Sir Simon seems cursed to future centuries of unrest. But the Otis family may in fact turn out to be his saviours ... This edition also contains further stories from Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and A House of Pomegranates, among others. Wit, intellectual, aesthete and raconteur, Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. His writing - including children's stories, poetry, philosophical essays, a novel and several hugely popular plays - made him the greatest celebrity of his day, and he remains one of the world's m